Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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